Posted:17th Apr 2010I was wondering if anyone could advise me what I should be working on to advance past the basic beginners moves. I am fairly good at most of the basic moves, weaves, butterflies (inc btwn legs), btb, windmills, corkscrews, mexican waves etc, and I have worked at transitions between the moves.

I have been working on flowers, are there any other things that anyone feels are worthwhile moves to move onto after the basics?

Posted:17th Apr 2010Hip reels, butterfly reels, crossers, meltdowns and then variations which are a big part of poi such as float weave, archer weave. i have a small repertoire but if you look at all the variations its quite sizable

fire is alive. it lives and breathes. it consumes and destroys. but we control it and live with it, we are fire dancers

Posted:17th Apr 2010Ok, FLOWERS! Give you a large range of movement. Turning with everything you can do. Doing many different types of stalls cleanly. Waistwraps, under the legs, and meltdowns are big concepts. Crossers, wraps are always nice to know, mostly spiral wrap is a great fun one.

Posted:17th Apr 2010Thanks for the suggestions, I have to remember to work all moves forward and reverse, I have a bit of a tendency to learn either a move in forward or reverse then forget to learn it the other way!

Posted:21st Apr 2010Yup, tis true. Isolations are one of my favorites Isolated buzzsaw took forever to get good, it looks so cool With isolations, you just give everything a look that it's floating with no real attachment to anything. That is, with fire, not socks.

Posted:22nd Apr 2010Heh I love isolations too, strange that I could isolate a buzzsaw before I could do buzzsaw proper, but then I could do a btb butterfly before I could three beat weave. I just find it facinating how one person can find one move easy and another difficult and a friend can find the opposite!